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Double header (2 matches a day) will be played today in the 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). In the second match of the day, Punjab Kings will face Rajasthan Royals. The match will be played at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur, Punjab from 7:30 pm.
This season Punjab has played two matches so far and has won both. Rajasthan has played three matches so far, out of which they have won only one and have suffered defeat in two.
At the same time, the first match of the day Chennai Super Kings (CSK) will face Delhi Capitals (DC). The match will be played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai from 3:30 pm.
Preview of second match …
Match details, 18th match pbks vs rr date: 5 April Stadium: Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Stadium, Mullanpur Time: Toss- 7:00 PM, Match Start- 7:30 PM
Rajasthan dominates Punjab in Head to Head In the IPL, 28 matches have been played between Punjab and Rajasthan so far. Punjab won in 12 and Rajasthan in 16. Both teams will clash for the second time on this ground. Earlier, Rajasthan won in the match played in 2024.
Shreyas Iyer scored the most runs for PBKS Punjab Kings are invincible this season. The team has won both its initial matches. Captain Shreyas Iyer is the top scorer of the team. He has scored a total of 149 runs in both matches. In the first match of the season, he scored an unbeaten 97 in 42 balls against Gujarat Titans. After him, Batter Prabhasimran Singh has scored 74 runs in 2 matches. He played a half -century innings of 69 runs in the second match of the season against Lucknow Super Giants. In bowling, Arshdeep Singh is the highest wicket -taking player for the team. He has taken 5 wickets in 2 matches.
Hasranga Rajasthan’s top wicket Rajasthan Royals bowler Vanindu is the top wicket -wicket of Hasranga team. He has taken a total of 5 wickets in his 2 matches. He took 4 wickets for 35 runs in the last match against Chennai Super Kings. Batting, Dhruv Jurlel has scored the highest 106 runs for the team in 3 matches. He scored a half -century of 70 runs off 35 balls against SRH in his first match of this season. After him, Nitish Rana has scored 100 runs in 3 matches. Nitish played a half -century innings of 81 runs in 36 balls against CSK.
Samson will captain today Sanju Samson will be seen captaining Rajasthan Royals in this match. After being fully fit, BCCI’s National Center of Excellence gave Samson a wicketkeeping and permission to take over the team on 2 April. Regular captain Samson was not captaining due to injury, in his place, all -rounder Ryan Parag was given the team command.
Pitch report The fifth IPL match is being played in the new ground of Mohali. The highest IPL team score here is 192/7, which was made by Mumbai Indians against Punjab Kings last year. Here the first batting team has won 2 and chase team has won 3 matches.
Weather report Mullanpur will have blurred sun and cloudy on Saturday. There will be a lot of humidity here on the match day. The temperature will be between 20 to 38 degrees Celsius. There is no possibility of rain at all.
Possible playing-12 Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Priyansh Arya, Prabhasimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoynis, Suryansh Shedge, Glenn Maxwell, Marco Yansen, Yuzvendra Chahal, Lockey Ferguson, Arshdeep Singh, Nehal Vaidhera.
Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Nitish Rana, Ryan Parag, Dhruv Jurael (wicketkeeper), Shimron Hetmyer, Vanindu Hasranga, Jofra Archer, Mahish Tichita, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Kumar Kartikeya.